March 11, 2011 - Manado, Indonesia -ne of Indonesia’s most active volcanos has erupted, sending lava and searing gas clouds tumbling down its slopes. Volcanology official Agus Budianto said Friday that authorities were still trying to evacuate residents living along the slopes of Mount Karangetang. There were no immediate reports of injuries or serious damage. The 5,853-foot (1,784-meter) mountain is located on Siau, part of the Sulawesi island chain. It last erupted in August, killing four people. Indonesia, the world’s largest archipelago, is located on the so-called Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanos and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin. The eruption happened hours after a massive earthquake in Japan that triggered a Pacific-wide tsunami. Meanwhile, thousands of people are fleeing their homes in northeastern Indonesia after officials warned that a tsunami up to six feet (two meters) high could hit coastal areas following a massive earthquake near Japan. Some jumped in cars and motorcycles and headed to high ground as sirens blared. Others huddled in mosques or were brought to police stations or army barracks. -NDTV

What the mainstream news FAILED TO SHOW YOU - Japan Volcano Eruption 3/11/2011

Took place yesterday "friday" and was not even mentiioned.... why? i will tell you why.. the governments of this world know whats taking place and its just not some freak earthquake in Japan..its much much deeper then that and that will prove itself in the near future when we see more major disasters..mark my words.

This is the beginning of sorrows - god spoke to me earlier today and thats exactly what i heard from him.

Volcano erupts in japan at the a bit after the 1:20 mark in the video below..

Geyser in Yellowstone National Park YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyoming (ABC 4 News) - The nation's oldest park is also one of the most studied. The interest is not just in it's amazing vistas and wildlife, but in the volcanic beast below the park.

Yellowstone sits atop one of the world's biggest, active volcanoes, one capable of laying waste to much of north America.

Scientists keep an eye on it using a network of seismic and GPS sensors.

Professor Emeritus Robert Smith of the University of Utah is one of those scientists. A geophysicist, Smith a leading expert on the Yellowstone super volcano. "We monitor it in real time for earthquake swarms and ground deformation."

He says the park is in constant motion. Visitors can't see it, but the ground at their feet is moving up and down as magma pushes against the thin crust and powers the park's many geysers.

The changes are most evident at the Norris Geyser Basin. Henry Heasler, the Yellowstone Park geologist said, "It changes daily. Sometimes it's hard to keep up with the change near boardwalks because that impacts visitor and employee safety."

"Why are all the hydrothermal features here?" Heasler continued, "The geysers? The mud pots? The steam vents? The hot springs? It's because of the heat beneath our feet."

The heat from the volcano.

And beginning in 2004, volcanic pressure caused an amazing rise at the park: Three-inches a year for five-years.

Professor Smith said, "That's a lot of uplift and it's over an area that's over the entire Yellowstone caldera -- 50-miles long of uplift."

"If you went under a rubber sheet," Heasler said describing the uplift, "And pushed your thumb up, it's not just sticking up where your thumb is, there's like a slope to it."

In fact, as the land has bulged, Yellowstone lake has tilted enough that its water has flooded out trees on the south arms.

And now, the ground is sinking.

And the drop has brought up a whole new set of questions for scientists. "Why haven't the trees emerged again?" asked Heasler. "We don't know." They are watching the data as well as the geothermal features of the park for clues.

At times, those geologists see themselves are doctors monitoring a patient. In this case, the patient took a deep breath (between 2004-09) and now it is letting it out. That much is clear from the observations.

The unanswered question is, "why?"

For more on the story, watch "Yellowstone Eruption" Friday night on ABC 4 News at 10:00 p.m.

Nabro volcano, Eritrea, next to the border with Ethiopia. Credit: ESA/NASAThe Anabro (Nabro) volcano in the Northern Red Sea Region of Eritrea has erupted sending an ash plume more than 13.5 kilometres into the sky and disrupting air traffic across eastern Africa.

Part of the Afar Triangle, the stratovolcano is one of many volcanic caldera complexes in the north easternmost part of the East African Rift valley region. Nabro is located in the Danakil Depression, close to Eritrea’s border with Ethiopia and north of Djibouti, and has not erupted in at least 150 years. It is the most prominent of 3 large volcanoes (Nabro, Dubbi, Mallahle) in the region, each containing a large summit caldera.

The volcano erupted at 2103 GMT Sunday evening. The Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) said Monday that the 5,331 ft volcano has resulted in a large ash plume of up to 13.5 kilometres (8 miles) high. The scale of the eruption, compared to the ongoing eruption in Chile and 2010′s eruption at Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland, remains unclear.

The eruption was preceded by seven moderate earthquakes yesterday afternoon. A 5.6 magnitude quake at 21.03 GMT signalled the start of the eruption. The quake was centred 48 km south of the town of Edd (pop 11,259) and 199 km southwest of the city of Al-h’udaydah (pop 617,871). A 4.6 magnitude quake followed less than 35 minutes later.

On Monday afternoon officials in Ethiopia warned citizens to protect themselves from the ash and smoke coming from the volcanic eruption. Earthquake-report.com says ash is falling on the northern Ethiopian town of Mekele. Asamara, the capital city of Eritrea, is also said to be affected by ash from the erupting volcano. Ethiopian Airlines confirmed that all air services are operating as normal at present (1700hrs GMT). However, German airline Lufthansa said Thursday evening it had cancelled flights to Eritrea and Ethiopia.

Meanwhile, the latest ash advisory issued by the VAAC (see below graphic) is predicting that the Ash plume will spread towards the Middle East Monday night. By 6am Tuesday the ash plume is expected get caught in a west-to-east jet stream and spread to the skies over parts of Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Israel, Jordan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

The Jerusalem Post reported Monday evening that the ash plume may cause disruption to air traffic in Israel, Egypt, Jordan. “For now it looks like the ash is going to arrive to our southern border around Eilat southeast of us,” said Evgeny Brainin, a forecaster for Israel Meteorological Service. “It’s not likely to go Israel, but around us, perhaps to Jordan and Saudi Arabia even by tonight.

January 19, 2013 – GEOLOGY – A low-level earthquake swarm continues beneath Mammoth Mountain volcano (CA) (station MMS), with a M1.3 event recorded earlier today. Dilatometer data from instruments located within Long Valley Caldera show an inflection in trend at the swarm onset on or around 15 January 2013. A series of small explosions (green signals) followed a very subtle increase in volcanic seismicity in the past day at the Colima volcano (Mexico). Exhalations of gas and ash have increased slightly during the past 24 hours at Popocatepetl volcano. A mixture of wind noise, and small local and larger regional earthquakes dot seismograms at Guatemalan volcanoes Fuego (station FG3), Santa Maria (station STG6) and Pacaya (station PCG) today. Santa Maria seismograms show the most volcanic activity with occasional increases in tremor tucked within the “noisy” record. Recent MODIS thermal imagery shows the active lava flows descending the flanks of Fuego and the Santiaguito Dome Complex (Santa Maria). A few larger magnitude volcanic earthquakes punctuate an otherwise slowly decreasing trend in seismicity at San Cristobal volcano (Nicaragua) (station CRIN) today. Volcanic tremor amplitude continues to be unstable at Masaya volcano (station MASN), and frequent, low-amplitude volcanic earthquakes continue to plague Concepcion volcano (station CONN). An episode of larger magnitude volcano-tectonic earthquakes also affected Nevado Del Ruiz volcano (Colombia) (station OLLZ) late yesterday. Numerous low-amplitude volcanic earthquakes and occasional periods of volcanic tremor continue at the volcano. Numerous small seismic events continue at nearby Machin volcano (station CIMA) as well. The tremor-like signal late in the record at Machin is due to cultural noise, not the volcano. Strong degassing continues at Reventador volcano (Ecuador) (station CONE), accompanied by abundant low-frequency seismicity, including volcanic tremors. Over 1100 small volcanic earthquakes, along with low-level volcanic tremors have occurred during the past 24 hours at Copahue volcano (Chile-Argentina border). Weather obscures any surface activity accompanying the seismicity. –Earthquake Report

By Jeremiah JacquesA brand new island created by volcanic explosion is quickly growing and will likely remain a fixture of the Pacific landscape, Japan’s Meteorological Agency said on Thursday. The island was formed from lava that cooled and hardened above sea level after a large underwater volcano began erupting in late November.

While it is quite rare for new islands to spring up out of the sea, instances of major volcanic eruptions—especially for 2013—are becoming commonplace. In fact, 2013 will go down in history as the year with the most volcanic eruptions since record keeping began.

As of mid-December, the number of volcanic eruption for the year was at 83, according to calculations by Alvin Conway, author of The Extinction Protocol. Considering that the average is between 50 and 60 per year, this represents a significant increase. This number does not even include undersea volcanoes like the one that produced the new Japanese island.

Conway wrote about the potential importance of the uptick in eruptions: “While most scientists may readily dismiss any significance to the latest figures and may be quick to say the planet is just experiencing normal geological activity, it does raise other concerns about just what may be transpiring within the interior of our planet.”

Having 23 to 33 eruptions more than usual represents a potentially significant increase in the amount of ash and gases entering into Earth’s atmosphere. Some analysts believe the increase could lower global temperatures by 2 degrees Celsius or more, which could be enough to alter agricultural yields in key regions.

Whether or not the increased number of major volcanic eruptions ends up dropping global temperatures, the trend is significant.

The Holy Bible reveals that the God who created Earth and the whole universe can cause volcanoes to erupt: “Mountains have shaken because of Him, And the hills have been melted” (Nahum 1:5, Young’s Literal Translation). Psalm 104:32 says, “He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.”

Although, Jesus Christ is not recorded as having mentioned volcanoes specifically, He did talk about earthquakes, which often trigger volcanic activity. During His earthly ministry, Jesus Christ said earthquakes would increase in the time just before His return. “[T]here shall be famines, anhttp://www.thetrumpet.com/article/11206.18.0.0/world/2013-breaks-record-f… pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows” (Matthew 24:7-8).

It seems that every few weeks the Earth unleashes devastating violence of one kind or other: a volcanic eruption, an earthquake—a tornado—a tsunami—a mega storm—a flood—drought—a rash of wildfires. The events level property, raze homes, destroy crops, and take lives. But Bible prophecy makes plain that these disasters signal that this present evil world is about to end. In the rubble of the catastrophes lies invigorating hope.

Andrew Pontbriand A seismometer inside a borehole at Yellowstone National Park has begun reporting staggering underground activity near the southwest corner of Yellowstone Lake, possibly signaling the beginning of an eruption of the Super Volcano at the Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone National Park is home to many beauties, with it’s ancient landscape, geysers, and hot springs. It is also the site of one of the worlds most destructive forces. A supervolcano.

On average, Yellowstone’s Caldera erupts about every 640,000 years. According to the analysis of earthquake data in 2013, the magma chamber is 80 km (50 mi) long and 20 km (12 mi) wide, and is shaped like 4,000 km3(960 cu mi) underground mass, of which 6–8% is filled with molten rock. The upward movement of the Yellowstone caldera floor between 2004 and 2008 rose almost 3 inches (7.6 cm) each year and was more than three times greater than ever observed since such measurements began in 1923. By the end of 2010, geologists stated that the ground swelling has slowed down significantly. However, new reports are coming in the a borehole (B944) at Yellowstone Lake (where most activity is) has shown some pretty intense movements. “The activity began around 12:00 Noon, Mountain Standard Time (MST) on February 1, and was detected by a seismometer in Borehole B944 then continued, non-stop, all day yesterday getting worse and worse as the hours wore on. The activity is continuing right now at 6:06 EST AM as this news article is being produced.” This according to Turner Radio Network.

The map below shows the location of Borehole B944 in relation to Yellowstone Lake and the rest of the park.

Doomsday preppers have been working themselves into a frenzy way (way!) ahead of the Yellowstone supervolcano's next eruption

When will Yellowstone's supervolcano erupt? Some would have you believe very soon.

According to the website Preppers World USA, the supervolcano bubbling beneath Yellowstone National Park is showing imminent signs of annihilating everything within a 500-mile radius, covering most of the country in ash and sending the planet into a prolonged nuclear winter. In other words, it’s a doomsday prepper’s wet dream.

As Outside contributor Emily Matchar wrote in the June 2012 issue, preppers constitute a “growing subculture of Americans who spend time and money—lots of both—preparing for apocalyptic scenarios of various stripes.” They think the end is coming, and many have invested in stockpiles of water, gold, nonperishable food, and weapons.

The “worrying developments” cited by Preppers World include earthquakes, the excretion of “a gas called helium-4, a very rare type of helium,” and a 1.4-inch uplift of the ground in a circular pattern—“circular, as in the round mouth of a volcano”—that indicates pressurization, something like a deep magma pustule in the earth’s crust.

And of course, because the dimple and the helium-4 actually do exist and were detailed in a pair of unrelated reports, released on February 18 and 20, by researchers from the USGS Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO), the Preppers World story had just enough basis in fact to race around the Internet almost as fast as that map of the Fukushima radiation plume. Websites like BeforeItsNews and the End Times Forecaster blog began issuing caps-lock alerts.

There’s just one problem: none of the volcano observations look any different from what’s been recorded at Yellowstone in the past century. “These guys could take a study on pika farts and reinterpret it as a looming indicator of destruction,” YVO research geologist Jacob Lowenstern, 50, told me. “The only thing that has changed lately is the ability to spread rumors quickly via social media, and the willingness of some of the authors to misrepresent monitoring data that’s on the Internet.”

Its hardly the first time. Mass-media interest in the Yellowstone volcano began about ten years ago with the fictionalized BBC docudrama Supervolcano. This January, after a seismometer conked out and produced a stream of static, the Internet went wild with reports of earthquake swarms, as they’re called, that definitely foretold the coming of the big one. On February 5, Lowenstern and the YVO issued a report politely cautioning doomsayers: “These noise bursts … can appear alarming to the inexperienced eye.”

In this latest Preppers World false alarm, the author confused helium-4—the most common form—with helium-3, which can show an uptick with volcanic activity. The large quantity of helium-4 that Lowenstern and his coauthors discovered was interesting (Slate made a cool Web video explaining it), but it has nothing to do with a coming eruption. The 1.4-inch uplift is real, but uplifts are also fairly common. The last one began in 1996 and subsided in 2003.

“There are no changes that indicate an eruption is near,” says Lowenstern. “The volcano hasn’t erupted for 70,000 years.” In case you’re still worried, it’s worth noting that the USGS has a dedicated Volcano Hazards Program tasked with monitoring every possibly active volcano in the country and assigning each a warning level and a color-coded aviation advisory. The Department of Homeland Security actually based its terrorism alerts on those of the Volcano Hazards Program. Yellowstone is listed as normal and green.

The trouble is, once you’re betting on TEOTWAWKI (the end of the world as we know it, in prepper lingo), you’re bound to be a little disappointed when it doesn’t arrive. There’s always next time.

Unfortunately our time may be up–America may not exist soon as you’ve known it

By Shepard Ambellas

(INTELLIHUB) — In what may prove to be bad news for a one-thousand mile swath of the United States, the Yellowstone supervolcano may be on the brink of a massive explosion that would be categorized as an extinction level event (ELE).

In fact, recent reports suggest that ancient Helium4 gas has breached the surface layers of Yellowstone’s crust,escaping into the atmosphere. Now couple that with the recent and abrupt ground level rise in the park–and we may be looking at a spell for disaster.

I mean after all, as Michio Kaku, famous theoretical physicist, pointed out on a Jan. 2011 CNN newscast, “When it blows [Yellowstone] it could destroy the United States as we know it. [...] That’s what is making us nervous”

I don’t know about you but to me the thought of living in that region is horrifying, but what do I know, I live right near a massive volcano myself in Hawaii.

Later in the newscast the popular physicist points out how a 1000-mile ring of the U.S. would likely be destroyed if the supervolcano actually went. And as scary as that seems to some, we are actually quite overdue for the big one. In fact, the last Yellowstone eruption was thought to have happened around 630,000-years ago, meaning we are 30,000-years overdue for a total explosion.

Kaku also pointed out that, “Every single burp, murmur, of this gigantic supervolcano, including the rise above sea level, has to be watched very carefully”.

So basically, if you do the math for the disaster radius, the first 100-miles emanating out from ground zero would be completely wiped out. After that, ninety percent devastation would span out another 500 plus miles from ground zero, totaling a 1000-mile ring. Yikes!

Now this is where it get really scary, but there is no way I can vouch for the information, I simply can’t. According to a random individual who recently posted a video on YouTube, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) has likely been ordered by Washington to suppress information regarding recent seismic activity and gaseous releases in and around the Yellowstone region.

This information came directly from a connected individual, according to the video which also pointed out that they are “expecting the big one”. The random man’s source has not been revealed.

However, all of this matches up with actual data I was able to reference showing a rise of ground level in the park of more than 10 inches in the last week. So naturally this has me troubled as Michio Kaku as stated, “As the ground starts to rise, more and more earthquakes take place,that’s about all the warning we get”, answering a question regarding a forewarning.

Kaku finished with, “It will happen and it will destroy North America as we know it”.

Over the past 48 hours, a noticeable increase in seismic activity has occurred across the Western United States.

Specifically, a swarm of earthquakes has occurred extending from the Western edge of the Yellowstone magma chamber, now Eastward into the center of the National Park itself.

This building pressure is now manifesting as multiple 3.0M+ earthquakes, all at a 3.0mile or greater depth inside the Yellowstone magma chamber.

As if Yellowstone were not enough, the pressure is also translating to earthquakes occurring farther Southwest from Yellowstone, along the deformed edge of the North American Craton, extending into Central California , along the subduction zone of the North American Plate (and the Pacific Plate).

yellowstone volcano california volcanic march 26 2014

The above screenshots show the past 2 United States earthquakes greater than 3.0M. One inside the Yellowstone supervolcano, the other at an “unnamed” volcano in California.

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Video update on the current Yellowstone movement from tatoott1009 here:

April 10, 2014 -- (TRN) -- After a relatively minor earthquake near the Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone National Park earlier today, at least one seismometer is starting to register a strange and consistent build-up of pressure and rumbling. What's going on with the super-volcano underneath Yellowstone? See the seismometer graph LIVE below.

Weak to moderate effusive and explosive activity continues at the volcano. Cloud cover prevents direct observations most of the time, but the seismic signal shows tremor and explosion signals. A thermal hot spot indicates that lava continues to build up at the summit lava dome. [details]

Tuesday, May 27, 2014Etna (Sicily, Italy): Weak strombolian activity continues with little variation from the New SE crater. A slightly increasing trend of tremor amplitude can be observed over the past days. ... [details]